The Torque Social Hour is a weekly livestream of WordPress news and events. In this episode I talk with Mike McAlister, a Product Designer + Principal Software Enginee at WP Engine. We’ll talk with Mike about why WordPressers should start building real sites with FSE. Join us next Wednesday, September 29th, when we talk about current trends in WordPress themes with Rich Taboor and Damon Cook.
The Torque Social Hour is a weekly livestream of WordPress news and events. In this episode I talked with Joey Daoud, the founder of New Territory Media , about how to bring new life to content from your WordPress blog by converting it into video. We talk about how you can record your video, how to optimize video SEO, and how video can get your content seen by more users. Be sure to catch Joey’s talk at WordCamp US! Join us next Wednesday, September 7th, to hear our conversation with Cami Kaos about the basics of Diversity, Equity, Inclusion, and […]
Did you know The San Diego Zoo is only an 8 minute drive from this year’s WordCamp US location? The San Diego Zoo is one of three zoos in the United States that has giant pandas. That got me thinking about a Wapuu/giant panda mashup.
The Torque Social Hour is a weekly livestream of WordPress news and events. In this episode we talk with Felix Arntz, a lead dev on Google’s Site Kit plugin for WordPress and a founding member of the WordPress Performance Team. We talk about Felix’s upcoming WordCamp US talk and about what steps the Performance Team are taking to make WordPress faster and more responsive for all users. We also talk about some new features coming to Google’s Site Kit plugin, including integration with an upcoming product called Thanks With Google, which will allow content creators to easily accept donations from […]
Ben Meredith is the Director of Customer Service and Support at GiveWP. In this episode of the Torque News Drop, we talk with Ben about his technical support philosophy and the lessons he’s learned while doing support for his own plugins on the WordPress plugin repository. Be sure to catch Ben’s full talk at WordCamp US at 2pm PT on September 9th.
I’m so excited about WordCamp US in September. Like many of you, I haven’t been to a WordCamp in years, so I thought I’d share some travel advice for San Diego. If you’d like some better travel advice, we’d recommend this WCUS travel thread by @GoGinaMarie.
The Torque Social Hour is a weekly livestream of WordPress news and events. In this episode we talk with Anthony Burchell about Three Object Viewer, a WordPress plugin that enables 3D functionality for VR/AR experiences. Anthony is optimistic about how WordPress can power the metaverse. We also explore Tumblr’s new block editor, which is powered by WordPress open-source Gutenberg tool.
The Torque Social Hour is a weekly livestream of WordPress news and events. This week we are talking with Jeff Chandler, the founder of WP Mainline and a Torque contributor. We talk about two recent articles that Jeff has shared on Torque; “A Brief Look at the WordPress App for iOS” and “Installing WordPress, The Race Against Time”. This was a fun conversation that touched on many WordPress topics.
The Torque Social Hour is a weekly livestream of WordPress news and events. This week we’ll be talking about what new changes are coming to WordPress Core. Our special guest is Nick Diego, a Core contributor and Developer Advocate at WP Engine. We talked about the future of Full Site Editing and upcoming updates on WordPress Core.
Generative text-to-image tools, like Dalle-2 and Midjourney, are all the rage this summer. I used an AI tool called Craiyon to generate an image based on the prompt “WordPress mascot” and then redrew the results in a more consistent style. Here are the results:
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